Sometimes She Just Wants to be Loved

Chapter 22

I'm sooo sorry this chapter took so long to get written. I have no excuse and can only beg forgiveness for neglecting this story for so long. This is the final Chapter and I hope you guys enjoy it.

Sakura's POV

After having been confined to the house for several days' by Kakashi and his nagging worries, he finally allows me to go out for a walk by myself. I leave our home giving him a kiss on the cheek and heading into the market; I buy a daisy and walk out to the cemetery. I don't know if Kakashi was following me, but I hope that he isn't, I trust that he isn't.

I walk around until I find the fresh grave that has a headstone that reads "R.I.P. Ino Yamanaka Treasured Friend and Amazing Daughter." There are many flowers and memento's surrounding her grave, I can tell that many people have come to pay tribute to her life and say good-bye. I know I'm the person everyone thinks is least likely to come and leave something, but I feel like I owe it to her.

I really did love her, and I'm honestly extremely sad that she's gone, even if I've excepted that it's her own fault. I wish I could go back and just end it with her, the way I should have ended it, but I know I can't. But This is how things are meant to be, even if there are some things I would change.

Through all of this, I believe I was meant to find Kakashi, I was meant to fall in love with him and we were both meant to change together.

I kneel down beside her grave and lay the daisy directly in the middle of the headstone and bow my head. "Hey Ino, I hope you're in a better place now. I understand why you did what you did, but it was horrible, and I can't say I've entirely forgiven you for it yet, but I will one day. I miss you, not only as my best friends, but as a person, I miss hearing your laugh, and I miss seeing your face. We were just never meant to be together forever, and I wish you had taken your chance of finding the person you were meant to be with. I found mind, but you already know that, I wish you could have accepted everything, and we could have become friends again. Though in my heart, you'll always have a special place as not only my first love, but also as my first best friend." I can't help but let a few tears spill out, I watch as they drop into the soil on her grave. "I'm going to come back and talk to you often, okay? I promise, you're always going to be my friend. I've gotta go now, so I'll talk to you soon, I miss you Ino, and I hope we meet again one day."

I stand up and turn around and start to walk, I want to look back, but I don't. I will come back and visit her, maybe Kakashi will even come back with me one day, but for right now, I just need some time to think. I need some time to forgive her and everything she's done so that u can still think of her the day she deserves to be thought about.

Kakashi's POV

I hate to fight the urge to follow her when she left to go on her walk, but I won the battle with myself. She deserves some alone time, I trust her to tell me the truth when she comes home.

I lay down in bed and pull out Icha Icha, I don't get far before my thoughts drift back to Sakura. I want to ask her to marry me, but it's to soon, or maybe it isn't, I'm really not sure. I put Icha Icha away and roll over and press my face into the pillow, why does this have to be so confusing, should I plan it out, or should I just buy a ring and carry it around until the perfect moment presents itself? Should the ring be big or small? What if she says no?

This isn't fair, I have no idea what to do, and no one I feel like I can ask on what to do. Well there is one person, but if I ask her then the surprise of it all will be ruined. I sigh and roll back over to stare at the ceiling. I look around and see the boxes in the corner, soon my stuff will be in them when we find a house of our own to move into. It's a big step, but it doesn't feel all that big to me, I don't feel sad about leaving this plain little house, it wouldn't be a home without her.

I hear the front door open and close and I sit up and go into the kitchen where she's putting on a pot for hot tea and pulling out something to make for dinner. I wrap my arms around her waist and she smiles, "How was your walk?"

"It was nice, refreshing, I went to Ino's grave," I bite my lip and wait for her to finish, "I needed to say my goodbye's to her." I shake my head, it's understandable. "I know I'm going to have to forgive her one day, so I'm trying." I smile down at her as she slices up a vegetable, that's my Sakura, even after someone has wronged her so badly; she still wants to forgive them. I wonder if she even hates anybody, she's so loving, her heart is so big, I doubt it.

This is how it should be, this is how I want to spend the rest of my life. As long as she's by my side, I'll be able to handle anything.

I hope you guys enjoyed reading this fic as much as I enjoyed writing it. I'm sort of sad to have it end, but I'm happy with the way it turned out. Review and let me know what you thought =]

-Gaarabear